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The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting - A Study of the Ilkhanid London Qazv?n? (Hardcover)
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The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting - A Study of the Ilkhanid London Qazv?n? (Hardcover)
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
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This is a beautifully illustrated study of Al Qazwini's 'Wonders of
Creation' and the first ever translations of the text into English.
'Wonders of Creation' is one of a handful of extant illustrated
codices produced under the Mongols of Persia. Al Qazwini collected,
edited and assembled a large body of literary works into a single
text that reflects the cultural world of a medieval Arab
encyclopaedist. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Stefan Carboni
analyses the manuscript's miniatures, discusses the 368 paintings
that illustrate the codex, and includes a partial critical
translation of the related Arabic text. The codex contains a copy
of acosmographical text written in Arabic in Baghdad towards the
end of the 13th century. The cosmography represents a physical
description of the world arranged from the outer spheres of the
universe, where the throne of God, the Angels and the Planets are
located, down to Earth where the Peoples living in the Islands of
the Oceans, the Mineral, the Vegetal and the Animal Kingdoms are
described throughout the text. It offers a stylistic analysis and
discussion of the manuscript's miniatures. It includes the first
ever translations of sections of the 'Wonders of Creation' into
English. It is beautifully illustrated with over 400 colour images.
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